Elmer Lincoln FULTON

(1865-1939)

FULTON, Elmer Lincoln,
(brother of Charles William Fulton), a Representative from
Oklahoma; born in Magnolia, Harrison County, Iowa, April 22, 1865;
moved to Nebraska in 1870 with his parents, who settled in Pawnee
City; attended the public schools and Tabor College, Tabor, Iowa;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice
at Pawnee City, Nebr.; moved to Stillwater, in the Territory of
Oklahoma, in 1901 and continued the practice of law; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress September 17, 1907, and served
from November 16, 1907, when Oklahoma was admitted as a State into
the Union, until March 3, 1909; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress; resumed the
practice of law in Oklahoma City, Okla.; appointed assistant
attorney general of Oklahoma in 1919 and served until 1922, when he
resigned and again resumed the practice of his profession; died in
Oklahoma City, Okla., October 4, 1939; interment in Valhalla
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present